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nasimaselim[at]gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Nasima Selim is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin. Since 2011 she works as Senior Lecturer at the James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University Bangladesh. Nasima studied medicine and public health in Bangladesh (SSMC and BRAC University) between 2000-2006, interdisciplinary social sciences in India (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, CSSSCAL) between 2007-2008 and completed a Master\u2019s in Medical Anthropology (AMMA) at the University of Amsterdam in 2010. Dr Selim worked as Assistant Registrar in Pabna Mental Hospital, National Institute of Mental Health Project and as Senior Medical Officer at Monon Psychiatric Hospital before joining BRAC University as a research associate in 2007.
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Dr. Selim teaches anthropological approaches to public health, qualitative research methods, mental health leadership and scientific writing at BRAC University and mixed method at the Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg. She was co-investigator in three completed mixed-method, multi-country research projects: (1) \u201cHealth Professional Education Situation Analysis of Bangladesh\u201d (2012); (2) “Violence against marginalized women in Bangladesh” (2010); and, (3) “Globalization as a social determinant of health: Influences on patterns of food consumption among young people in Asian Universities”(2009). Nasima Selim\u2019s master\u2019s dissertation based on a focused ethnography in Amsterdam titled, \u201cDoing Body, Doing Mind, Doing Self: Vipassana Meditation in Everyday Life\u201d. Her current doctoral project is an ethnography of Sufi healing practices in Berlin.
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Dr. Selim is a student member of the EASA network (European Association of Social Anthropologists) as well as the AG Medical Anthropology. She is a lifetime member of the Public Health Association of Bangladesh and an associate member of the Bangladesh Psychiatric Association.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Research Interests<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Self-care and well-being practices; religious\/spiritual healing; complementary and alternative medicine; anthropological approaches to public health; mental health; mixed methods<\/span><\/p>\n

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Research Area(s)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Western Europe (Germany, the Netherlands); South Asia (Bangladesh)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Publications <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Monographs and Edited Volumes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2010. Ed. together with Sjaak van der Geest and Shahaduz Zaman: \u201cDaily Health Concerns in Kakabo: Anthropological Explorations in a Bangladeshi Village\u201d. Dhaka: James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University.
\nhttp:\/\/sph.bracu.ac.bd\/publications\/reports\/monograph\/MONOGRAPH%209-%20Kakabo.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2014. Together with Tanvir Hasan, Tisa Muhaddes, Suborna Camellia and Sabina Faiz Rashid: \u201cPrevalence and Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence against Women with Disabilities in Bangladesh: Results of an Explanatory Sequential Mixed Method Study\u201d. In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence 29(17): 3105\u20133126.<\/span><\/p>\n

2013. Together with Shahaduz Zaman and Taufique Joarder: \u201cMcdonaldization without a McDonald\u2019s: Globalization and Food Culture as Social Determinants of Health in Urban Bangladesh\u201d. In: Food, Culture and Society: An international journal of multidisciplinary research 16 (4): 551-568.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. Together with Sabina Faiz Rashid. Editorial. \u201cCommunity health concerns: Qualitative research in rural Bangladesh.\u201d BRAC University Journal Special Issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011a. Together with Anne Mann, Annemarie Mol, Priya Satalkar, Amalinda Savirani, Malini Sur and Emily Yates-Doerr: \u201cMixing methods, tasting fingers: Notes on an
\nethnographic experiment\u201d. In: HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory 1 (1): 221-243.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011b. Together with Sophie Goudet, Paula Griffiths and Barry Bogin: \u201dImpact of flooding on Feeding Practices of Infants and Young Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh Slums: What are the Coping Strategies?\u201d In: Maternal & Child Nutrition, 7 (2):198-214.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010a. \u201cAn extraordinary truth? The Adam suicide notes from Bangladesh\u201d. In: Mental Health, Religion & Culture 13 (3): 223-244.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010b. \u201cCultural dimensions of depressive episode: A qualitative study in two villages of Matlab\u201d. In: Journal of Population, Health & Nutrition 28 (1): 95-106. http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2975851\/<\/span><\/p>\n

2008. Together with Priya Satalkar: \u201cPerceptions of mental illness in a Bangladeshi village\u201d. BRAC University Journal 5 (1): 45-55. Available at: http:\/\/www.bracuniversity.ac.bd\/journal\/contents\/512008\/Nasima.Selim.pdf<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chapters in Edited Books<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2015. \u201cSufi body practices and therapeutic politics in Berlin\u201d. In: Klinkhammer, Gritt and Eva Tolksdorf (eds.): Somatisierung des Religi\u00f6sen. Interdisziplin\u00e4re Perspektiven auf den rezenten religi\u00f6sen Heilungs- und Therapiemarkt. [Somatisation of Religions. Interdisciplinary Perspectives of the recent religious healing and therapy marketplace.] University Bremen: Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen des Instituts f\u00fcr Religionswissenschaft und -p\u00e4dagogik, Band 7. (In Print) <\/span><\/p>\n

2014. \u201cWhat does sitting have to do with the self? Body techniques, personhood and well-being in Vipassana meditation\u201d. In: Van der Geest, Sjaak, Gerrits, Trudie and Julia Challinor (eds.): Medical Anthropology: Essays and Reflections from an Amsterdam Graduate Programme. Health, Culture and Society: Studies in Medical Anthropology and Sociology Series. Diemen: AMB Publishers, 265-282.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011. \u201cFriendship (and healing) in the \u2018intersubjectivity of silence\u2019: A case illustration\u201d. In: Tankink, Marian and Marianne Vysma (Eds.): Roads and Boundaries: Travels in search of (re-)connection. Diemen, the Netherlands: AMB Publishers, 195-206.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2014. Book Review of: \u201cPatients and Agents: Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh\u201d by Alyson Callan. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. In:
\nMedicine Anthropology Theory 1 (1): 213 – 214. http:\/\/www.medanthrotheory.org\/site\/assets\/files\/4496\/selim-patients_agents.pdf<\/a>
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[Master\u2019s thesis]
\n2011. \u201cDoing body, doing mind, doing self: Vipassana meditation in everyday life\u2019. Germany: Lambert Publishers. MSc thesis, Amsterdam Master\u2019s in Medical Anthropology (AMMA), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
\nhttp:\/\/amma.socsci.uva.nl\/theses\/selim.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Conference Presentations (since 2017)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2013 \u201cHealing the city\u201d: Sufi healing at Berlin\u2019s Fernsehturm.
\nOriginal paper presented at the Workshop titled, \u201cPrayer, Architecture, History\u201d at the
\nZentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, Germany. Organized by Charles Hirschkind and
\nBirgit Meyers, Research Initiative \u201cNew Directions for the Study of Prayer\u201d under the
\nauspices of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, November 4-5.<\/span><\/p>\n

2013. Beyond Dhikr and Whirling Dance: Innovative Body Practices among Sufi Groups in Berlin [Jenseits von Dhikr und Drehtanz: Innovative K\u00f6rperpraktiken in Sufi-Gruppen in Berlin. Original poster presented at the Conference on \u201cSomatization of the Religious\u201d [Somatisierung des Religi\u00f6sen Religionswissenschaftliche und \u2013soziologische Perspektiven auf den rezenten religi\u00f6sen Heilungs- und Therapiemarkt] at Hannover im Schloss Herrenhausen. Organised by Gritt Klinkhammer and Eva Tolksdorf, Religious Studies, Bremen University, Germany, October 23-25.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011. Negotiation of Cultures in Public Health: Critical Reflections on an Applied Discipline. Cultural Transformations: Development Initiatives and Social Movements, the 2nd Inter Asian Cultural Studies Conference at BRAC University. December 18.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009a. Delusion, Heresy or Resistance? Mass Suicide and a Minority Religion in Bangladesh. \u2018Delusion, Heresy or Resistance? Mass Suicide and a \u201cMinority\u201d Religion in Bangladesh\u2019, an initial draft of the paper was presented on June 26, 2009 at the Workshop-cum-Seminar on \u2018Minority Cultures\u2019, organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), 25-26 June, a Program of the CSSSC-Papiya Ghosh Memorial Fund supported by Tata Social Welfare Trust.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009b. Ekattorer Debdas (Debdas of 1971): The \u2018unusual\u2019 protest and plight of a \u2018living martyr\u2019 of the Liberation War. Second International Conference on Genocide, Truth & Justice. Dhaka: Liberation War Museu, July 30-31, 2009. http:\/\/www.liberationwarmuseum.org\/genocide\/papers\/lwm_icgtj_2009_selim.pdf<\/a>
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